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#: 5907 S1/General Interest
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06-Aug-90 21:25:48
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Sb: #5672-#To Meg or Not to Meg !
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Fm: DENNIS SKALA 73177,2365
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To: Tony Cappellini 76370,2104 (X)
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I'm in the process of updating and correcting the Microcom ramdisk package (I
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guess I should mention this is legal - I'm the author) to work properly with
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the Disto one meg memory upgrade. What's your system configuration? I'll need
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a beta tester or two to make sure the thing actually works --- I'm still at
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512K here.
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***** Dennis *****
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#: 5963 S1/General Interest
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10-Aug-90 01:21:00
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Sb: #5907-To Meg or Not to Meg !
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Fm: Tony Cappellini 76370,2104
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To: DENNIS SKALA 73177,2365 (X)
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SO there actually is a real person called Dennis Skala. I guess that there is
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also some truth to the rumour about some new version of os9 as well !!!! Just
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kidding ! My system doesn't have the 1 meg upgrade in it. I installed it in a
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friends system, since he is not too good with a slobbering iron. But just for
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the record, I have 512k. I would be happy to ask my friend to be a beta tester
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if you are willing to send him /me the driver and information needed. But it
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will have eto wait for a while as He is going on a business trip this Ssaturday
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for 1 week, and I will be leaving for vacation for 2 weeks, a week from this
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Friday (8-10). I hope I can find an os9 system back there to goof around on. 2
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weeks without LII can be considered cruel and unusual punishment ! Please leave
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me a message as to how/when you woul like to do this. Thanx for the info. TC
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#: 5908 S10/Tandy CoCo
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06-Aug-90 21:44:16
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Sb: Planet Engine 1.1
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Fm: James Jones 76257,562
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To: All
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Just got my copy of Planet Engine 1.1, and it's one of the more fun things I've
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found in a long time. It essentially gives you your own personal planetarium
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and orrery. An astronomer would find it quite useful--I think it's a heck of a
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lot of fun. Well worth the $$$.
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(I should nudge him to consider a version for the MM/1.)
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The above is, of course, solely my personal opinion.
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#: 5909 S10/Tandy CoCo
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06-Aug-90 22:38:58
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Sb: #Transferring Apple FIles
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Fm: Ladd Temple 73647,2154
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To: all
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I seem to recall that there was once a program to enable reading data from
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Apple disks under OS-9 and copying the files to an OS-9 disk. Some what like
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pc-dos does for ms-dos disks. If my memory is correct, is the file available
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in this forum? Does such a program truly exist? Help - I have 92 data files on
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apple disks for a research project I need to have transferred
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Thanx for any assistance, guidance you can offer.
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Randy Temple
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#: 5915 S10/Tandy CoCo
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07-Aug-90 09:46:57
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Sb: #5909-#Transferring Apple FIles
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Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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To: Ladd Temple 73647,2154 (X)
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Ladd -
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The only Apple/OS9 interface I was aware of was a card called the MILL, and a
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version of OS9 ported to it that was written by Steve Childress (my ex boss).
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Other than that, I don't know of any disk read/write tools for the apple..
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Sorry!
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Pete
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#: 5926 S10/Tandy CoCo
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07-Aug-90 22:14:05
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Sb: #5915-#Transferring Apple FIles
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Fm: Ladd Temple 73647,2154
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To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)
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Thanx for your help Pete. I guess my memory isn't as good as I thought it was.
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I'll have to figure out some other way to get my data over.
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<<<Ladd>>>
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#: 5930 S10/Tandy CoCo
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07-Aug-90 23:43:36
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Sb: #5926-Transferring Apple FIles
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Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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To: Ladd Temple 73647,2154
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Ladd -
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Best/most universal way is to get a terminal emulator up on both machines, and
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rig a null modem type RS-232 cable. I still do that here with OS9 boxes and
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PC's.
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Pete
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#: 5910 S6/Applications
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06-Aug-90 22:59:56
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Sb: #what is?
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Fm: Everett Chimbidis 76370,1366
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To: 72746,3451 (X)
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Hew what is vt220?
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#: 5911 S6/Applications
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07-Aug-90 02:11:17
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Sb: #5910-what is?
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Fm: James Jones 76257,562
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To: Everett Chimbidis 76370,1366 (X)
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It's a terminal made by Digital Equipment Corporation--think of it as "son of
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VT-100."
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#: 5912 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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07-Aug-90 07:40:12
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Sb: #5820-#TOP - Munich Release 2.0
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Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Ok. Just wondering if it is necessary to dl 1 and 2 again. Guess I still
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don't know ....
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Carl
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#: 5914 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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07-Aug-90 07:59:35
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Sb: #5912-#TOP - Munich Release 2.0
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Carl Kreider 71076,76 (X)
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Carl,
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If you've not had any problems with your copy, it should be unecessary to
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re-download. Message 5375 was still on the board today when I checked. It
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explains what the problem was... as I thought, difficulties expanding to a
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directory.
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Steve
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#: 5949 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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09-Aug-90 09:09:32
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Sb: #5914-TOP - Munich Release 2.0
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Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Ok, thanks. Problem is that I have been too busy to keep up with all the forum
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traffic, so I missed 5375. And I don't know if they burst right or not. Will
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have to look again. - Carl
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#: 5913 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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07-Aug-90 07:42:43
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Sb: #5867-#TOP - Munich Release 2.0
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Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76
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To: Ed Gresick 76576,3312 (X)
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All the other's decompress and detar ok. I use stuff off usenet for compress
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and tar. Tar reports that top12.tz has a bad header and a hex dump seems to
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confirm that - there is garbage where there should be nulls and so on.
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Carl
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#: 5966 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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10-Aug-90 05:00:25
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Sb: #5913-TOP - Munich Release 2.0
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Fm: Ed Gresick 76576,3312
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To: Carl Kreider 71076,76
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Carl -
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Will re-upload top12.tz. Thanks for the feedback.
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Ed
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#: 5916 S10/Tandy CoCo
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07-Aug-90 14:51:18
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Sb: #Basic09 Windows
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Fm: Floyd Resler 72500,2572
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To: All
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I am having a problem with BASIC09. I am trying to kill the current window and
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recreate a 16 color graphics screen with a window occupying the lower half and
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two other windows in the corners (upper left and upper right). He is my code
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for occomplishing this:
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DIM uleft,uright:byte
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RUN gfx2("dwend")
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RUN gfx2(1,"dwset",8,0,12,40,12,0,2,2)
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RUN gfx2(1,"select")
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OPEN #uleft,"/w"
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OPEN #uright,"/w"
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RUN gfx2(uleft,"dwset",0,0,0,20,12,2,0,0)
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RUN gfx2(uright,"dwset",0,20,0,20,12,2,0,0)
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Every time I run this I get a parameter error in the RUN gfx2(uleft,"dwset",0,
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0,0,20,12,2,0,0) line. What am I doing wrong?
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#: 5917 S10/Tandy CoCo
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07-Aug-90 16:30:37
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Sb: #5916-#Basic09 Windows
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Fm: Zack Sessions 76407,1524
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To: Floyd Resler 72500,2572 (X)
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Try doing a:
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RUN gfx2(1,"dwprotsw","off")
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after the first DWSet call.
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Zack
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#: 5919 S10/Tandy CoCo
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07-Aug-90 18:47:36
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Sb: #5917-Basic09 Windows
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Fm: Floyd Resler 72500,2572
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To: Zack Sessions 76407,1524 (X)
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Thanks! I'll give it a shot.
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#: 5920 S9/Utilities
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07-Aug-90 20:03:06
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Sb: #go?
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Fm: Zack Sessions 76407,1524
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To: Pete Lyall
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Pete,
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I'm trying to find a copy of your GO utility. Is it here on CIS?
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Thanks,
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Zack
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#: 5928 S9/Utilities
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07-Aug-90 23:37:23
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Sb: #5920-go?
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Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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To: Zack Sessions 76407,1524 (X)
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Zack -
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I modified it, but it wasn't mine... I believe it came from the UGLIB, which
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still has a number of really neat tools that most folks haven't checked out.
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I *think* Bill Dickhaus might have also whacked on it, so check with him as
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well - or possibly Mark. In any case, Mike Ward can extract it from the UGLIB
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archives and upload it for you, if you need it.
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Pete
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#: 5921 S1/General Interest
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07-Aug-90 20:05:10
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Sb: #I'm a new member
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Fm: TOSHIAKI MATSUO 74060,2030
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To: SYSOP and ALL (X)
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Dear ALL OS9 forum members; Myname is Toshiaki Matsuo forty-two year
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old,family are wife son and daughter my work electric component sales company
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name SANSO ltd , a location is yokohama city in japan TEL:045-864-7446
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FAX:045-861-2399 I can little speak english now study english language I look
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forward to hearing from you soon ** Good-bye see you again ** ID:PAG02030
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1990,AUGUST,eights AM 10:00
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#: 5925 S1/General Interest
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07-Aug-90 21:45:51
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Sb: #5921-I'm a new member
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Fm: James Jones 76257,562
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To: TOSHIAKI MATSUO 74060,2030 (X)
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Hello, Toshiaki-san! Douzou yorosiku onegai simasu! (I'm still not used to
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kunrei-siki.) It's good to hear from you. Do you use OS-9? I've only been in
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Japan once, to attend a wedding, for only four days, but I have seen OS-9 for
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the Sharp X68000 in stores in Akihabara.
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Welcome to the OS-9 SIG; the people here are friendly and willing to help. I
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speak very little Japanese, but I study it, and listen to lessons on NHK.
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#: 5927 S1/General Interest
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07-Aug-90 22:16:51
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Sb: #5921-I'm a new member
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Fm: Zack Sessions 76407,1524
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To: TOSHIAKI MATSUO 74060,2030 (X)
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Welcome to the Forum! Just speak up if you have any questions/problems/anything
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you want to talk about!
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Zack
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#: 5922 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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07-Aug-90 20:16:15
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Sb: #STERM13
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Fm: Bud Hamblen 72466,256
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To: Simmule Turner 70651,67 (X)
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STERM13 in DL 12 appears to be cooked. It will crash OS-9/68000 v 2.3 on a
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PT68K-2. Any attempt to use an escape option that requires an input string
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from the console (such as esc-S or esc-X) will crash the system, with plenty of
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garbage appearing on the screen. OS-9 appears to be attempting to execute the
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contents of the console input buffer. Other programs are better behaved, so I'm
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not sure if the crash is caused by a bug in STERM13 or the PT drivers. The esc
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Q option, which requires only a single character input, doesn't cause any
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problem.
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#: 5924 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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07-Aug-90 20:46:32
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Sb: #5922-#STERM13
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Fm: SIMMULE TURNER 70651,67
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To: Bud Hamblen 72466,256 (X)
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I'll look at the problem, and get back to you. If I haven't
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responded within a week send another message.
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#: 5938 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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08-Aug-90 21:19:22
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Sb: #5924-STERM13
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Fm: Bud Hamblen 72466,256
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To: SIMMULE TURNER 70651,67
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It might be the monokbd driver that is cooked. STERM 1.3 works fine with the
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sc68681 driver running an H19 terminal. I'll check with Fred Brown at PT about
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the monokbd driver.
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Thanks for the reply!
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Bud
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#: 5932 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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08-Aug-90 07:51:07
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Sb: #5922-#STERM13
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Bud Hamblen 72466,256 (X)
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Bud,
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Ed Gresick is using Sterm on his PT68K. I do recall him mentioning driver
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difficulties. Perhaps he can shed some light.
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Steve
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#: 5939 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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08-Aug-90 21:20:39
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Sb: #5932-STERM13
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Fm: Bud Hamblen 72466,256
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Please see message #5938. I'm gonna talk to Fred Brown about this. Thanks!
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#: 5923 S10/Tandy CoCo
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07-Aug-90 20:22:02
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Sb: help
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Fm: Gilles Conte 73357,1103
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To: sysop (X)
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Hello Mr. Sysop
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I will like to know what file I should use to copy a program witch is on a dos
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disk to a os9 disk ?
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The program in question is a file that I download from the midi forum and it's
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a .ARC file so question number two. Does the AR or Pak program will unarc this
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file once in os9.???
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thank you!!!!
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#: 5931 S1/General Interest
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08-Aug-90 03:18:56
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Sb: BIOS
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Fm: David Jones 76256,1223
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To: 76703,4227
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Kevin,
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I was wondering if you could me how to disable the BIOS rom in a WD1002-WX1
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Hard drive controler? I am using the B&B interface and two miniscrib drives.
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The reson I ask is because I want to use a powered Y-Cable
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I bought the system used from COCO PRO, it came with the older user's manual
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(version 2.0) and the new software drivers for os9. I have everything else
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under control! Anyway if you could helpit would mean a great deal. I would like
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to get rid of the MPI because everything else is in an IBM Case.. Thanks,
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#: 5933 S4/MIDI and Music
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08-Aug-90 11:35:07
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Sb: #help
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Fm: Gilles Conte 73357,1103
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To: [F] All
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hello, I have a d-10 roland keyboard, and i will like to know if there a
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program in os9 that will let me build a librairy of sound with my different
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bank I got. Also is there any sequencer recorder in os9 ? i think its not
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possible is it right?? thanks
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#: 5934 S4/MIDI and Music
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08-Aug-90 15:05:43
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Sb: #5933-#help
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Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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To: Gilles Conte 73357,1103 (X)
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Gilles -
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I also have a Roland D10 (among other synths, samplers, and rack toys). There
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were some MIDI tools written in OS9/C, but most were for the Casio CZ-101/1000
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family. Almost all the other stuff is written for the RSDOS environment.
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Biggest reason is that MIDI requires a 31250 baud port, and a computer and
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buffering scheme that is capable of keeping up with it (at least in bursts).
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Because of interrupt latency, and time slicing, OS9/6809 really cannot do the
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job unless a) You have a smart interface card that does processing and
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buffering or b) You cheat out OS9, and lock your process into the saddle.
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There are lots of programs for the IBM, Atari, and MAC that are wonderful for
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use with the D10. If you were motivated, writing one under OS9 might not be too
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weird... as I said, Richard Johnson wrote a Casio Ed/Lib using technique b)
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Good luck.
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#: 5935 S4/MIDI and Music
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08-Aug-90 15:50:51
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Sb: #5934-help
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Fm: Gilles Conte 73357,1103
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To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)
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Well, thanks anyway for the answer. But I dont think that Im good enough in OS9
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for doing that sort of program myself.
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But I was thinking that I can use a program for the Mt32 like mt32 Panel to do
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the job what do you think about it??
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Thanks Pete for your help!!! Gildo
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#: 5936 S10/Tandy CoCo
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08-Aug-90 17:32:41
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Sb: #Spoker.PAK
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Fm: Ernest Withers Jr. 71545,1117
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Joseph,
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I downloaded your Spoker.PAK and then discovered I didn't have Tim
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Koonce's View utility. I have looked in the libraries and can't find it. Where
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can I find Tim's view?
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#: 5945 S10/Tandy CoCo
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08-Aug-90 23:31:39
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Sb: #5936-#Spoker.PAK
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Fm: Joseph Cheek 76264,142
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To: Ernest Withers Jr. 71545,1117 (X)
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I cannot find it either, it may not be here. I cannot find my copy (in archive
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format), I must have deleted it. Can anyone here upload view40.ar? Can anyone
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upload tetris.ar? thanks . . .
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#: 5954 S10/Tandy CoCo
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09-Aug-90 19:25:53
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Sb: #5945-Spoker.PAK
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Fm: Ernest Withers Jr. 71545,1117
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To: Joseph Cheek 76264,142 (X)
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I know I couldn't find it. I thought I already had it but the view in my CMDS
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directory is Jim Peasley's file viewer.
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Thanks.
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Ernie.
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#: 5940 S1/General Interest
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08-Aug-90 21:21:11
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Sb: disk frags
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Fm: DICK SHARP 75266,2621
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To: 76070,41 (X)
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Mark,
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Thanks for the info. My information about OS9 disk fragmentation comes from
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mainly a review in Rainbow about Chris Burkes "FILE SYSTEM REPACK " and the
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Burke and Burke advertisments. The implications is that all you have to do is
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"think hard disk" and things get so bad that the system almost grinds to a halt
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. I had the feeling that I would have to "repack" my disks constantly to be
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efficient . Thanks again,I'll sleep better tonight.
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I am new to the OS9 opperating system and need help from time to time.
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Best Dick
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#: 5941 S14/misc/info/Soapbox
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08-Aug-90 21:47:17
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Sb: #hard drive info
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Fm: BRETT 72057,3720
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To: all
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Greeting-
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I have a large 5.25 inch toshiba drive. it looks like it says it is a
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model mkm0353 e OZO1. I think it is an 80 meg unit. Anyone got any idea about
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heads cylinders etc for this thing. It has an st506 interface. I am planning
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on using this via an adaptec scsi adapter on my MM1 when it finaly arrives.
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Help! I would like to format and test on the coco now.
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-Brett
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#: 5944 S14/misc/info/Soapbox
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08-Aug-90 23:17:52
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Sb: #5941-#hard drive info
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Fm: Randy Wilson 71561,756
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To: BRETT 72057,3720 (X)
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Brett,
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Here's what I got on Toshiba 506 drives:
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MODEL ST-506 MFM CAP CYC H RWC WPC ENC RATE ACCESS SPT COMMENTS
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MK53FA 5.25 FH 43 830 5 831 831 M 5 30 MS 17
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MK 54FA 5.25 FH 60 830 7 831 831 M 5 30 MS 17
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MK 56FA 5.25 FH 86 830 10 831 831 M 5 30 MS 17
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ST-506 RLL
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MK53FB 5.25 FH 64 830 5 831 831 R 7.5 23 MS 26
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MK 54FB 5.25 FH 90 830 7 831 831 R 7.5 25 MS 26
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MK 56FB 5.25 FH 130 830 10 831 831 R 7.5 25 MS 26
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As you can see, no exact match, but 830 cyls looks like a good bet. :>
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Randy
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#: 5957 S14/misc/info/Soapbox
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09-Aug-90 22:05:48
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Sb: #5944-#hard drive info
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Fm: BRETT 72057,3720
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To: Randy Wilson 71561,756
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Greeting-
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Thanks for the info. I could only find a .arc file in the IBM forum. the
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description said it may have had the info, but I do not have msdos and can not
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dearc. Unless someone here knows of a program to dearc msdos arc files under
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os9.
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If anyone has more specific info I am still looking. If I do not get something
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better I will run with this.
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-Brett
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#: 5960 S14/misc/info/Soapbox
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10-Aug-90 00:12:02
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Sb: #5957-#hard drive info
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Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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To: BRETT 72057,3720 (X)
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Brett -
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Hmmm.. there should be a DEARC in DL9.
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Pete
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#: 5974 S14/misc/info/Soapbox
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10-Aug-90 22:39:37
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Sb: #5960-#hard drive info
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Fm: BRETT 72057,3720
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To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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Greeting-
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Thanks will look for dearc in dl9. I was wondering where I might find the
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source to uptime? Seems tha author is some guy that used to have a gimix in
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calif. For some reason when I got it I only snarfed object. Big mistake when
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you want to change something latter.
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-Brett
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#: 5979 S14/misc/info/Soapbox
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11-Aug-90 08:38:28
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Sb: #5974-hard drive info
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: BRETT 72057,3720
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Brett,
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Are you still on Mark's system? I should have a copy of the source here. I
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could UUCP it over if you'd like.
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Steve
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#: 5943 S6/Applications
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08-Aug-90 22:25:20
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Sb: Uemacs editor for 6809
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Fm: BRETT 72057,3720
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To: all
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Greeting-
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Get ready for OSK now. I just sent up to dl6 ue.ar It is a termcap driven
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version of Micro emacs for os9 6809. has multiple windows even over serial
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lines. I do not have the source, but if you send me email to
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internet:marob.masa.com!davidge!wa3yre!wynkoop I will tell you who to pester to
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get the source. 'Course then you must promise to send it to me.
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-Brett
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#: 5948 S3/Languages
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09-Aug-90 06:19:51
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Sb: #Password functions
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Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41
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To: Carl Kreider, 71076,76 (X)
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Carl,
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There seems to be a problem with the password functions. In the example below,
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the second call to get the name returns NULL in all cases. If you swap the
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functions, then same thing happens, i.e., the second call always returns a NULL
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even if the name or uid exists. Apparently something is not getting reset in
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endpwent() ??? Any ideas?
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if (getpwuid(atoi(pw[ID]))) {
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fprintf (stderr, "\nUID %s is already used\n", pw[ID]);
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endpwent();
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exit(0);
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}
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endpwent(); /* close password in case getpwuid fails */
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if (getpwnam(pw[NAME])) {
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fprintf (stderr, "\nUser %s already exists\n", pw[NAME]);
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endpwent();
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exit(0);
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}
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endpwent(); /* close password in case getpwnam fails */
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Mark
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#: 5950 S3/Languages
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09-Aug-90 09:10:12
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Sb: #5948-Password functions
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Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76
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To: Mark Griffith 76070,41 (X)
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I will look at this off line and get back. - Carl
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#: 5953 S10/Tandy CoCo
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09-Aug-90 18:24:15
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Sb: Windint
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Fm: PHIL SCHERER 71211,2545
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To: [F] Kev 76703,4227
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Hi Kev--I've been trying to get the code in Rainbow July <Kissable OS9> to run
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and I cant. The problem is in the window section line 7000 onward. When it
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opens the new window I cant bounce back to the old one until the new one is
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gone. When the called procedure ends, the new window wont go away unless I
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bounce a little with the clear button. Then the original window comes back.
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Dale Puckett said he thought it was my windint and that I should check with
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you. If you haave any thoughts on it I would appreciate your input. Thanks.
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#: 5956 S10/Tandy CoCo
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09-Aug-90 19:37:25
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Sb: #SPoker
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Fm: Hugo Bueno 71211,3662
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To: Joseph Cheek
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I d'loaded and have played you SPoker program. It runs fine except that the
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stitle.vef and opps.vef files do not load correctly. When I try to view them
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with the view utility, nothing comes up on the screen. When starting the
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program, I have to hit break in order to get the thing started. Any ideas?
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Hugo
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#: 5958 S10/Tandy CoCo
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09-Aug-90 23:26:32
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Sb: #5956-#SPoker
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Fm: Joseph Cheek 76264,142
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To: Hugo Bueno 71211,3662 (X)
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Opps.vef and STitle.vef show up black because all the palettes in the pivture
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are black. SPoker sets the palette up so that you can see them when it is run.
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As for having to press BREAK, I do not know. Can you give me a little more
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information? What happens, when do you hit break, what happens after youo hit
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break, etc. Your problem seems to be unique so far. Please tell me a little
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more so I can best determine how to solve your problem.
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#: 5971 S10/Tandy CoCo
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10-Aug-90 15:42:04
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Sb: #5958-SPoker
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Fm: Zack Sessions 76407,1524
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To: Joseph Cheek 76264,142
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That was pretty tricky, the way you load in a picture from a VEF file and then
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POOF! it's there!
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Zack
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#: 5978 S10/Tandy CoCo
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11-Aug-90 07:33:45
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Sb: #5958-SPoker
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Fm: Richard Taylor 73137,3324
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To: Joseph Cheek 76264,142
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Does anyone know where I can find the view utility for Spoker. I would like to
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get it up and running but have had know success in finding the utility needed.
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Thanks..
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#: 5981 S10/Tandy CoCo
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11-Aug-90 08:51:09
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Sb: #5958-SPoker
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Fm: Hugo Bueno 71211,3662
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To: Joseph Cheek 76264,142
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|
Apparently, it never does reset the palettes. I have to hit break a couple of
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|
times. Then the first screen I get is the one which asks you which opponent you
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want to play against.
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Hugo
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#: 5959 S6/Applications
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09-Aug-90 23:31:18
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Sb: #ue.ar
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Fm: Joseph Cheek 76264,142
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To: all
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Please help, I downloaded ue.ar (lib 6?) and cannot get the program to run. I
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put termcap in /dd/sys and put ue in /dd/cmds with e/pe attributes, but when I
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type ue it gives me 'unknown tty line' or something similar. I've tried ue -e
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and ue -t=c3 but it will not work. The termcap entry mentiones something about
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a cc3io patch for two-byte screen codes, what is this? Is this my problem? It
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doesn't seem like it would be. Please help.
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#: 5961 S6/Applications
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10-Aug-90 00:14:24
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Sb: #5959-#ue.ar
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Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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To: Joseph Cheek 76264,142 (X)
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Joseph -
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You should also have a file /dd/sys/ttytypes (or ttytype), and it should have
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the name of the terminal type for the device you're on, i.e.:
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|
/term coco
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/w1 coco
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/w2 coco
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etc....
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Pete
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 5968 S6/Applications
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10-Aug-90 12:46:01
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Sb: #5961-ue.ar
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|
Fm: Joseph Cheek 76264,142
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To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)
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|
Thanks for the info, I will try creating a sys/ttytypes and see what happens.
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#: 5962 S10/Tandy CoCo
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|
10-Aug-90 01:19:27
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|
Sb: Privledges in BASIC09
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|
Fm: steve Crump 71550,3115
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|
To: All
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|
|
|
Everyone,
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|
I have been working on a sound playing module for BASIC09 that will
|
|
play .pla (macsound) files. I disassembled the newest PLAY command
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|
and discovered that its author uses 4 system mode calls (AllRam,
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|
MapBlk, ClrBlk, and DelRam) to play up to 2 meg for sound. I have
|
|
tried this techque from BASIC09 using SYSCALL but it won't work
|
|
I get an "ILLEGAL MODE" error. I assume OS9 is telling me I can't
|
|
use those calls from a user program... but if not why can PLAY also
|
|
a user program get away with it. I have disassembled SYSCALL and
|
|
it makes no checks so the error must be coming from OS9 (right?).
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|
Is there anyway around this problem and if not how do I go about
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|
"un-protecting" the system mode calls as is mentioned in the manual
|
|
I know someone out there must know.
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|
|
|
Any help would be great.
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|
Steve Crump
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|
[71550,3115]
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|
|
|
#: 5964 S10/Tandy CoCo
|
|
10-Aug-90 01:22:56
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|
Sb: #RS Catalog for 1991
|
|
Fm: Tony Cappellini 76370,2104
|
|
To: ALL
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|
|
|
I thought you all would like to know that I just saw the coco 3 in the new 1991
|
|
Radio Shack Catalog along with some games/programs. Must have been a misprint !
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|
TC
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#: 5972 S10/Tandy CoCo
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10-Aug-90 15:43:40
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Sb: #5964-RS Catalog for 1991
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|
Fm: Zack Sessions 76407,1524
|
|
To: Tony Cappellini 76370,2104
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|
|
|
WOW! It's still in the catalog! Will wonders never cease!
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#: 5965 S1/General Interest
|
|
10-Aug-90 01:39:17
|
|
Sb: Sound Master
|
|
Fm: Tony Cappellini 76370,2104
|
|
To: Jim McDowell
|
|
|
|
Jim I finally got sound master to work after stripping down my system to the
|
|
point where I was almost at RSDOS again. Just kidding ! But I did have to
|
|
remove unused window descriptors and modify my startup file so MV wouldn't
|
|
start. When I finally got done I had 432K free, and soundmaster finally worked.
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|
It was impressive to see such a graphical representation. But I couldn't figure
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out a few things. When I turned on the oscillators, I could here a ticking,
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|
like a metronome in the background, as well as the tone that was being
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|
generated. Your doc file didn't say anything about that so I was kind of
|
|
puzzled. Also I was just playing around with the controls, and the SSpak
|
|
started talking to me. I'm not kidding ! It mumbled a few letters / sounds, but
|
|
it was speech. Your doc file did not say anything about this either, and I have
|
|
not been able to get it to do it again. I think the user interface needs some
|
|
work, like mouse control instead of arrow keys, and it neds to be able to run
|
|
while multi vue is up ! I kept getting error 207 even without multi vue in
|
|
memory (gshell) and only TERM running. Also you mentioned the chance of doing
|
|
it in C instead of Basic 09. Got my vote here. For the pre-canned sounds that
|
|
you included, it seemed that even when they were playing the oscillators were
|
|
all set at 0, so where were the sound being generated ??? It was fun playing
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|
with it, and will look forward to talking to you about this. THANX. TC
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|
|
#: 5967 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
|
|
10-Aug-90 10:26:54
|
|
Sb: #We're in Beta!
|
|
Fm: Mark Wuest 74030,332
|
|
To: all
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|
|
Hey all (especially Kevin, Mark G, Carl, etc),
|
|
About 2 years ago I got feedback on this forum for a multiplexing protocol
|
|
convertor we were putting together. It is "soaking" with what we believe are
|
|
the last bug fixes presently in a test lab and should go to Beta early next
|
|
week. After 7 weeks in Beta, it will go into the 4 largest Digital Central
|
|
Offices in the world to allow various Support Systems enhanced access to the
|
|
switches and monitoring equipment located therein. After that, it will be
|
|
gradually released to other Digital Central Offices.
|
|
FWIW, here's what we ended up with:
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|
1 Motorola MVME 147 (68030, 8 mb, 150mb disk) running os9, a board-to-board
|
|
routing application, X.25 network access applications, and Support System
|
|
interfaces.
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|
1-18 Motorola MVME 333-2 (68010, 512kb ram, 64kb rom) running os9, and level 2
|
|
and 3 of any of several protocols, or a user-interface. These have 6 ports
|
|
available for async protocols and 2 ports for sync.
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|
We have our own block-serial file managers (bfm and pfm) that handle (along
|
|
with block-serial drivers) data transfers between the 147 and the 333's and
|
|
read and write access to the 333's ports.
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|
The 333's are just devices to the 147 (/slot3, /slot4, etc) and vice-versa
|
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(/host). We get about 400 512-byte packets/second composite backplane data
|
|
transfer with our application fully loaded and running.
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|
Bill West, Inc (comprised of Bill West) wrote the backplane driver and file
|
|
manager with help from developers on our team. GCOM, Inc licensed the X.25
|
|
level 2 and 3 drivers for network access and access to equipment that has X.25
|
|
interfaces directly to us.
|
|
Thanks for the input at the time!
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|
Mark
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|
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 5973 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
|
|
10-Aug-90 18:31:36
|
|
Sb: #5967-We're in Beta!
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|
Fm: James Jones 76257,562
|
|
To: Mark Wuest 74030,332
|
|
|
|
Excellent! Have you considered writing about the system? I bet that MOTD,
|
|
Pipelines, or any of several technical magazines would be interested.
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|
|
|
#: 5969 S1/General Interest
|
|
10-Aug-90 14:08:13
|
|
Sb: CoCo 3 Acctng. Progs
|
|
Fm: Gerry herring 71477,667
|
|
To: all
|
|
|
|
I need some help. I need some accounting-type software so I can run my what I
|
|
need is like A/R, A/P, G/L. Inventory Mgmt., + a spreadsheet. would appreciate
|
|
all suggestions.no t worried if D/L ob CIS, a BBS, or purchased. just need some
|
|
ideas! if on a BBS, leave me baud/parity and full # BTW i have a Novation
|
|
Professional 2400 Baud modem.
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#: 5970 S1/General Interest
|
|
10-Aug-90 14:11:15
|
|
Sb: addt'l info for acctng
|
|
Fm: Gerry herring 71477,667
|
|
To: all
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|
and [D [D
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#: 5975 S7/Telecommunications
|
|
10-Aug-90 23:32:19
|
|
Sb: MUYX BOX
|
|
Fm: Greg Morse 72746,3451
|
|
To: 74030,332
|
|
|
|
Mark - I work for a Telco. Maybe we need your system. How do I get ordering
|
|
info and what does it do? Greg Morse
|
|
|
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#: 5976 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
|
|
11-Aug-90 05:32:29
|
|
Sb: #TOP - Munich Release 2.0
|
|
Fm: Ed Gresick 76576,3312
|
|
To: sysop (X)
|
|
|
|
Sysop:
|
|
|
|
I have re-uploaded top12.t. Please delete the old file top12.tz.
|
|
|
|
Ed
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|
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 5982 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
|
|
11-Aug-90 09:20:11
|
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Sb: #5976-TOP - Munich Release 2.0
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Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
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To: Ed Gresick 76576,3312
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Ed,
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I've merged in the correction as we type. Thanks for the re-upload!
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Steve
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#: 5977 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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11-Aug-90 05:34:45
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Sb: top12
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Fm: Ed Gresick 76576,3312
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To: Carl Kreider
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Carl:
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I've re-uploaded top12. I did not compress after 'tar'ing the files. I think
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the problem may have been caused by the fact that the individual files are
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already compressed by TOP. Thanks for pointing out the problem.
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Ed
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#: 5983 S10/Tandy CoCo
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11-Aug-90 09:54:29
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Sb: Graphics Viewer
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Fm: Zack Sessions 76407,1524
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To: ALL
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I just uploaded Tim Kientzle's (AKA Tim Koonce) graphics viewer program, VIEW
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(Version 4.0, the latest) to DL10. It is what everybody needs to run the new
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Poker program. Supports a multitude of formats, and saves screens to a file
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also. I
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Filename is view40.ar. Will be available as soon as the sysop processe4es [Dit.
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Zack
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Press <CR> !> |